California Current Ecosystem LTER

Palmer Station Automatic Weather Station (AWS) Data

Title
2-minute automatic weather station meteorological measurements (precipitation, radiation, cloud base, temperature, etc.) from various installations at Palmer Station Antarctica, 2001 - Feb 2019.

Abstract
Automated weather observation station at Palmer Station Antarctica using Coastal Environment sensors. Currently four stations. Gamage Point: Started recording in November 2001. Overlapped for two years with manual observations. In December 2003, the PalMOS automated report generator was brought online and the manual observations discontinued. Base: The new weather station in the "backyard" of Palmer Station, beginning in 2015. AWS1: The weather station on Wauwermans Islands (8 miles from Palmer Station) - Installed Oct 31 2015. AWS2: The weather station in the Joubins Island group, on Howard Island (Lat -64.786987 Long -64.360658)

The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) collects, archives and provides Antarctic meteorological observational data to the community and public for research, logistic, and educational activities. The AMRC requests acknowledgement for use of the data in any published work. See http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/acknowledgement.html for details on how to acknowledge AMRC data, displays or information. If the AMRC data are critical to the work, co-authorship may be appropriate. Please contact the AMRC in such a case.

AMRC Contact Information:
Address: 947 Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Building
1225 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin, USA 53706

Keywords
radiation, precipitation, weather, climate, snow, long term, Disturbance Patterns

LTER Data System Record
http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/d53c789b7a442f5206f6372f3a356c3d
Projects
Palmer Station Antarctica LTER

Contact
CCE LTER Information Manager (ccelter.im@gmail.com)

Data

table Gamage Point Station Data
AWS data from the weather station on Gamage Point.
Rows: 4776789
Columns: 27
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table BASE
AWS data from the new weather station in the "backyard" of Palmer Station
Rows: 1782086
Columns: 27
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table AWS1
AWS data from the weather station on Wauwermans Islands (8 miles from Palmer Station) - Installed Oct 31 2015
Rows: 1737529
Columns: 27
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table AWS2
AWS data from the weather station in the Joubins Island group, on Howard Island (Lat -64.786987 Long -64.360658)
Rows: 1572057
Columns: 27
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Methods


Data processing
Data are downloaded and parsed from the University of Winsconsin data archive (<a href='ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/palmer/observations/'>ftp://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/palmer/observations/</a>) approximately every 2 months.